While the right to privacy may have been the key to securing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, some advocates of the controversial procedure today want to walk around with a sign, t-shirt to be exact, broadcasting their reproductive decisions.

In 2004, abortion advocate and author Jennifer Baumgardner launched the I Had an Abortion project to encourage women and men to come out about their procedures. The campaign featured shirts that read I Had an Abortion, a book, photo exhibit, and documentary film featuring 10 women  including feminist Gloria Steinem  describe their abortion experiences spanning seven decades.

In preparation of an upcoming panel discussion and book signing featuring Baumgardner at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, controversy ensued when I Had an Abortion shirts began to pop up around campus. WWAY reports that the panel was held Monday by the Womens Studies Department and LGBTQIA Resource Office, where the controversial shirts were sold for $15 each at the event.

If you were to distribute a T-shirt that said, “I drive my kid around without a seat belt,” you would be denounced nationally by the media and popular culture. However when you boast that you killed your child before they had a chance to ride in a car, it becomes a novelty — one more tool for thoughtful political discourse. How sad.

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posted on 04/29/2012 1:34:36 PM PDT
by ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)

I attended a Crisis Pregnancy Center dinner celebrating 30th year of pro life centers in AZ - Our Rep Trent Franks was there and so were over 30 families of those who personally came into the center for counseling. We had a mother and her 3 year old daughter at our table along with a couple and their 4 month old son, both of whom are alive today because of CPC ministries. The speaker said “6 million Jews were anhililated in less than 10 years during WWII - over 54 million babies have been murded in less than 40 years since Roe v Wade passed in 1973. (9 Holocausts over!!!)

They are proud of their sacrifice to The Lilith, their baby-eating Goddess.

I wonder what would happen if some women were to start wearing shirts that say "I regret my abortion--CHOOSE LIFE"? I would think such a message might penetrate the Liberal Mind Fog which infests much of the populace, and I think reactions to that message might prompt abortion promoters to show themselves as who they really are, sufficiently clearly that even those infested by Liberal Mind Fog would be able to see it.

After all, abortion promoters could not allow such a message to go unchallenged, lest people who had abortions, and were ashamed of them, come to realize that wearing such a shirt might help atone for their past. It would thus be absolutely imperative that such people be attacked sufficiently viciously to discourage others from following suit. But how to attack them? The left would try to attack them with some contradictory arguments, but even Liberal Mind Fog wouldn't hide the contradictions, nor would it hide the hatred underlying the leftists' attacks.

It would be interesting how many of the t shirt wearing “I had an abortion” wearers have psychological or relationship problems.....of course it would not occur to them the root cause could very well be their decision to kill an unborn child...

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posted on 04/29/2012 2:04:31 PM PDT
by Kimmers
(Fair isn't everybody getting the same thing, fair is getting what you need to be successful)

I don’t care what they do, they’re never going to succeed in making abortion the “admirable” or “heroic” choice they seem to want to portray it as. People instinctively know that murdering your own offspring is not praiseworthy. I don’t see how these sorts of campaigns can do anything but backfire.

That one’s been done. It’s important to keep fresh ideas in the argument, coming from an unexpected direction, because that trumps rote responses that can be made without thought.

On an unrelated note, I really had my teeth kicked in the other day, yet it was a no-fault and I understand the whole context. I casually knew a woman who the last I saw was almost due with her pregnancy. This time she was no longer pregnant, so I innocently asked, “Boy or Girl?”

She replied, “*It* *was* a girl.” Oh, heck. Time to shut up now. I assume a stillbirth.

I am very glad she was working at the time. I really did not want to be anywhere near there right then. But in quick retrospect, I was about the only thing she could say in the face of such tragedy.

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